Noun

(en-plural noun)

(with "the") Those who have been killed.

* 1906 , Mary Elizabeth Lewis, The ethics of Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung , page 41:

While the Valkyries were the choosers of the valorous slain , they were also obedient to the call of any in distress who asked their help.

Noun

(en noun)

(dated, fandom slang) A fan of science fiction.

* {{quote-book

, year = 1944 , first = John Bristol , last = Speer , authorlink = Jack Speer , title = Fancyclopedia , url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_I/f1.html , chapter = F - Fascism , isbn = , page = , passage = The idea of a national government, covering all the slan race and nobody else, is seen in the many drives for a general fan organization. }}

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, year = 1950 , date = September , author = Charles Stuart Metchette , title = Michigan Memories , magazine = Spacewarp , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Spacewarp/Spacewarp42-72.html , issue = 42 , page = 72–77 , passage = Here, at least once a month, the slans from Michigan gathered for sneak previews of forthcoming WARPS, to criticise some Rappian manuscript which Art was polishing for pro submission, or to talk about various subjects as fans are wont to do, and drink beer, pop, consume beans, dogs, chips, or eclairs. }}

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, year = 1955 , first = Arthur , last = Koestler , authorlink = Arthur Koestler , title = The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays , isbn = , page = 143 , passage = gather in clubhouses called slanshacks, "slan " meaning a biologically mutated superman. }}